The heaviest carbon emitting vehicles, such as City Buses, Taxi Cabs, Delivery Vehicles, Forklifts, and others that operate most of the day, need to become electric long before residential vehicles that get used less than an hour a day. This strategy also postpones/removes the need to build a Charging Grid across our spread out country because the companies that use these Heavy Carbon Emitting Vehicles can take care of the logistics of charging their products. Aside from saving a lot of copper and semiconductors, not building a comprehensive Charging Grid will save billions in tax dollars to invest in inventions and innovation that put Canada in a better to contribute to solutions, as well as gain economic advantages (ex. patents and establishing businesses first that will have Pricing Power) internationally and nationally.

 

Another benefit of postponing the Charging Grid is that it will provide more time for Graphene Printing to mature to the point of replacing Copper as a primary conductor. Graphene is less expensive, more conductive and has other advantages over copper, silver and other materials. It has been a very anticipated discovery that has been achieved very recently. It is still possible for Canadian Companies to compete in this very valuable and important market, especially with Government Help.

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Taxing Unnecessary Travel

 

Something that all Countries should consider is Taxing (Excessive) Unnecessary Travel.  Many people are almost addicted to traveling and this creates a lot of CO2 and other pollutants.  Maybe gas and other purchases outside of one's local surroundings needs to be taxed higher?  If so, a tax credit on the first $2000/person could be appropriate to allow for some travel freedom, such as to visit family and friends.

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Making Products Last Longer

 

Too many products are made to fail these days. Some of you may remember Refrigerators, Stoves, Furnaces and other household appliances that were resilient to failure. Now days, they in large appear to be made to fail soon after the warranty expires. To compound this injustice and burden our environment with unnecessary pollution associated with periodically replacing these appliances, as well as many other common products designed to fail, replacement parts are often extortionate! This often results in customers replacing the entire unit rather than repairing it. This is very environmentally unfriendly, and customer unfriend as well, but it has become the norm and needs to change! Solutions for these problems include requiring the replacement parts are kept within an acceptable ratio of the sales price of the original unit and that companies do their absolute best to use universal parts - especially when it comes to those very likely to needing replacing – so competition can help keep the prices down.

 

Making product easier to refurbish is another priority! Have you gone through the effort to refill your Printer Ink Cartridge to later conclude after significant internet research that the company has made it impossible to reuse it? There was a time you could get around their efforts to stop you, but they have worked hard, and now it seems impossible. Aside from this being very environmentally irresponsible, and customer rude, it communicates how out of control these types of problems are. The government needs to intervene now!

 

Aside from the standard governmental approaches for correcting these problems of greed (ex. passing laws, subsidies, applying tariffs, etc), many experts have been publishing Triple Bottom Line (TBL) Economic Models; some have become very popular. Converting over to a TBL Economy is a very big process, and as we have learned from the past, such actions are very difficult to achieve with our present democratic structure. The Global Debate Website can serve greatly in this and innovating other large intellectual structures within our Governments, Businesses, and more! It might be the most valuable contribution I have to offer!

 

The steps needed to prevent companies from making products to fail or become obsolete will take time, and might be avoidable with a specialized Social Enterprise Model I have designed. For the time being, I am simply calling it a For-Profit Non-Profit because it mostly uses the same accounting structure as a Non-Profit (employees cannot receive more than 250,000 per year and 60% needs to go towards Societal Development Projects; this will greatly reduce the Tax Burden on everyday Canadians once it becomes mainstream), but can enter into Stock Exchanges with a yearly Dividend Limit of 5%. Products are made to fail and become obsolete so the very rich in control of these corporations can pay themselves large bonuses. These bonuses are at the core of most immoral acts of our businesses (article), such as the use of cheap ingredients and procedures that harm humans, other species and/or the environment. Remove the opportunity to receive large bonuses, and those in control will focus more on securing their market position by making higher quality products, as well as experiencing the Altruism of their required Societal Development Investments. Do you comprehend how significant this is!?

 

Easier Recycling and Composting

 

We pay to have our recycling shipped to China (CO2 source) for sorting and they send us fees because we are not following the rules. Aside from everybody learning how to recycle better, the government can pass laws that make it easier for us to do so. Examples include requiring companies to use more universally recyclable materials. Sometimes it is cheaper or more convenient to use a special type of plastic or other material that cannot be recycled. When it comes to massive companies, this can add up to a somewhat significant amount of money, but when each product is considered separately, it is hardly worth mentioning. When considering the complications this causes for the public and recycling programs, the cost of letting them do this far outweighs the money they save. There are many examples like this that once addressed can make it easier for Canadians to do their own recycling, keep CAD in Canada, and create jobs!

 

Another strategy is to require businesses to make it easier to recycle what they produce. For example, packaging is sometimes a combination of paper and plastic (ex. bubble envelopes, some product packages, etc) that are hard to separate, resulting in the customer giving up and throwing it in the garbage or worse, into the recycling bin to burden the recycling system. This is avoidable and I would like to build a future where the Business Leaders are conscientious enough to make the right choices without intervention. The For-Profit Non-Profit Social Enterprise Model can greatly help!

 

Aside from making things easier to recycle, making materials more biodegradable is a good choice. A lot can be filtered out during paper and plastic recycling procedures, such as plastic Window Envelop pieces, Packaging Tape, and more. This sometimes overwhelms the equipment and ultimately ends up in the landfill. Aside from reducing these sources, investing in Biodegradable BioMaterial Research needs to continue so to position Canada for an inevitable future; one of less waste/pollution. I believe it is wise to asses this part of our economy and where it is going by consulting with Academic and Economic Experts before passing (Boarder) Laws. Boarder Laws will force foreign businesses to buy our BioMaterials or lease our patents, creating an economic advantage that is well justified!

 

When it comes to Produce Labels, Elastics, Plastic Clips, and other pieces commonly found in compost, as well as food containers and materials that cannot be recycled because of biodegradable or could be biodegradable contamination, Biodegradable Materials are very important to reduce Green House Gases that off-gas from Landfills, by redirecting that carbon into nutrient rich soil for Local Food Production, and at the very least, Crops that are used to make BioMaterials. These are often misunderstood or overlooked Super-Opportunities for reducing our Economic Environmental Footprint and building our National and International Economic Strength.

 

Local Food Production

 

Aside from improving Food Security, something Climate Change Greatly threatens, developing a more comprehensive National/Local Food Production Infrastructure will lower carbon emissions associated with transporting food, keep more CAD in Canada, and make jobs! Another win-win strategy! Greenhouse Technology, as well as Harvesting (ex. use of Robots), has come a long way to make local food production more affordable. Alberta has many abandoned Oil Wells that can be used for Geothermal Heating of Greenhouses, lowering the cost of startup. There is also the concept of capturing excess heat from economic processes (ex. Servers and other Internet related data processing stations) to heat Greenhouses and other buildings (ex. apartments).  Note:  New population centers (ex. towns and cities), such as those associated with Immigration topics discussed above, should be positioned to access Geothermal activity.

 

The Green Party is a big supporter of Regenerative Agriculture for capturing carbon in soil ecosystems that Industrial Agriculture and some Organic Farming practices destroy. Aside from capturing CO2, Regenerative Agriculture makes healthier food, healthier food improves mind-body health and performance, and healthier humans make better decisions for themselves, their employer, and everybody else, as well as are more capable at performing tasks. They also are less likely to burden society by needing Health Care, Welfare, and Unemployment. Please read the Preface of my textbook to learn what scientific experts are saying about the escalating growth of Non-Communicable Diseases (ex. Obesity, Diabetes, Cancers, Autoimmunity, and others) and how low quality food, toxins and other stressors are causing this degradation of the average person (all discussed in my textbook). We can do better and we must do better ASAP! Vote Brett Rogers in this election for a more powerful representation of these fundamentally important topics!